Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old Afghan national living in Fort Worth, Texas, has been deported to Afghanistan after becoming the first person to face proceedings before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court (a little-used US federal body established in 1996 to handle deportations of non-citizens classified as terrorist threats, but which had never previously received a petition). The Justice Department said Haji Zada, who was accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired plot and was identified as the mother and mother-in-law of two Afghan men convicted of planning an Election Day attack in the US in 2024, waived her right to contest her removal. Her lawyers warned that her consent should not be taken as acceptance of the court's legitimacy, arguing that withholding evidence from defendants and their attorneys constitutes a clear violation of due process, and pledging to challenge the court's constitutionality in future proceedings.